hi there I'm Deidre from our upcycled life and welcome to my channel
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miss any great diy content today i have three buckets all three of these all came from the dump
and i rescued them and I'm gonna up cycle them and make them into some farmhouse themed planters
that i can have outside in my garden and on my deck or patio
the first one that I'm going to do is an old sap bucket
and it's kind of a galvanized pale kind of aged but I'm excited to turn that into a planter and
sorry it's so noisy and an old bucket the metal handle i'm going to turn that into a planter
beautiful and rusty and
last this planter and it's got a little bit this this
has got a wooden handle on this end it's missing on this end so i need to fix that up a little bit
needs to be cleaned up but I have some great ideas so I'm going to get creating follow along and make
sure you hang out till the end so you can see what I made with them okay let's get started
okay so these were all grabbed out of the metal bin
and I saw potential in them and I think I can make them pretty
I'm just gonna wash them up to get all the grime and dirt off them
my favorite paint brush the Wooster I'll put a link down below in the description and up above
because it's a fantastic paintbrush and I'm going to put two coats of my homemade chalk paint
all over this whole bucket this homemade chalk paint recipe is really fabulous so
I'll also put a link down below and up above here for that recipe
I'm going to put on my farmer's market graphic this is available in my Etsy store I'll put a
link down below you can grab it make sure you use the code save 50 on all of my graphics and
you can get 50 off of everything download them to your computer and use them whenever you want
and I printed my own graphics out on these napkins it's a really easy technique I
also have a tutorial for that I'll put that link down below and up above here
and I'm just removing all the edges all that straight line edges and make it kind of
ragged so it blends into the pail better I've got it on a plastic sleeve I'm going to put it upside
down and put water all over it so it will um be easier to manage when I put it onto my sap bucket
I find if i was just going to put this napkin without having it doing this technique right on
the bucket it seems to really go wrinkly and gets lots of air bubbles this seems to eliminate a lot
of that by doing this technique you have to be very gentle because it'll rip really easy but I'm
just kind of pulling it out just to get any little wrinkles out of it let the water soak in and
then I'm going to take a cloth and dab up all the excess water and now I'm going to use my mod podge
mat and i'm going to put a thin layer over the whole area where I'm going to put that graphic on
and this type of decoupaging is just called a water transfer
super simple super easy and i always have really good results with it so you should give it a try
now you're just going to pick up that plastic sleeve with the graphic on it
and lay it right where you want it and the nice thing about this
is if you can just really gently move it around if it's not centered exactly where you want it
just be very careful because it is very fragile and then you're just going to press it down
with your fingertips and get all those little wrinkles and air bubbles out the best that you can
and when doing this technique you always want to have the same color background as a napkin
so that's why you want the white on the white or you will be able to see the outline of the napkin
very gently peel away that plastic sleeve make sure you're not bringing up the napkin
and it is adhered perfectly to your project
and then i just like to take a little bit of saran wrap kind of rolled up in a ball and just if there
are any wrinkles or bubbles left you can just press them out with that and it'll get rid of them
I've let it dry completely and now I'm going to put a top coat and because this
is probably going to be outside on either my covered deck or porch I'm going to put
my varathane outdoor polyacrylic sealer in a matte finish i like using the outdoor because it's a lot
more durable than the indoor especially if you're going to have your project outside
and I'm going to put a real good coat over the whole project and then set it aside and let it dry
next project this rusty old bucket and I'm going to just dry brush just latex paint over it just
to kind of brighten it up a little bit because i do want to put graphics on it also and if i
was just to put it on just the raw pale you wouldn't be able to see them very well so
I'm just putting a real dry brush coat of white latex paint all over the whole pail
okay hang on there's a ding in the side of it I'm gonna bang it out with my hammer so hold tight
I'm gonna have a little bit of a wiggly camera for a second and I'm just going to work away at
this and it probably will completely almost get that dent right out of it
and for this pail I'm going to use my vintage market graphic i love this one
and I'm going to do the reverse mod podge transfer
and you're going to print this off on your laser jet printer reverse the text and then you're going
to mod podge it onto the pail so I'm going to put a liberal amount over the whole graphic
and then stick it onto the pail and you want to let it set overnight and then in the morning
once it's dry I'm going to rub off all the paper and the graphic will stay on the pail
make sure you have it exactly where you want it on the pail
because once you set it down you can't move it so have it lined up really well
press it down get all the air bubbles all the wrinkles out of it and you're good to go
okay I left this overnight and now I'm going to dampen it with a
rag with water and you just want to dampen it so you can start to see the graphics come through
and then you're going to take off the paper
this is a little bit of a fiddly technique sometimes it works perfect sometimes you
might have little bits and pieces that rub off where you don't want it to
i don't mind that because when I'm using this technique it's always usually in a farmhouse
theme um decor or a sign where i don't mind if it looks a little bit rustic and especially
when you're doing it on metal it seems to not adhere as well as a wooden painted surface so
just be patient give it a try and if it doesn't work out the first time paint over and try again
okay all finished and I'm going to put the same varathane outdoor finish on this pail also
and sometimes when you do this technique you'll find that there's kind of like a cloudy bit
left on from the paper when you put this sealer on it will get rid of most of that cloudiness
and this one looks so rustic in farmhouse i love it i can't wait to put a plant in it
okay now to tackle this big planter um i think I'm just gonna take the handles right
off of it because i don't know how i'll get that wooden piece off that other end
so they're quite easy to pull off I'm just gonna take them off
set them aside put them in my shed because I'll use them on some other project
and i decided i wanted to do the salt and pepper painting technique on this i want it to kind of
have a faux cement finish so I'll put the recipe down below this is an awesome recipe to create
that cement look and it's really easy so I'm just gonna it's probably gonna take two coats
maybe sometimes three coats but I'm gonna put a nice liberal amount over this whole project
it has a real nice grainy stone finish to it
with the salt and pepper added into the paint and i love using it
and now on to the second coat and you will kind of want to dab it on you don't want to put too many
brush strokes in it and now for the finishing touch you're going to take some of that pepper
and you're going to take your brush and the second coat is still wet
so while it's still wet you're going to take your pepper and just dab it into that wet paint
just kind of randomly all over the whole pail and it'll give that rock cement finish look
and again i have a full tutorial on this recipe and
other projects that I've done with it so check that out after you've watched this
one
okay now it's completely dried and I'm going to use my um polyurethane spray and seal it
all up really well i didn't want to brush on i wanted to just use the spray so i could keep that
cement looking finish and this should be good to set outside too with this formula
okay all finished and i love the way that they turned out they're gonna look fantastic on my
deck and on my porch and the best thing about it is they were all free other than the cost of
the little tiny bit of paint I've upcycled these give them a new life and i love when i can do that
there's no better feeling than taking junk and making it pretty and saving it from the landfill
so find some old pails and buckets turn some junk into something pretty thanks so much for watching
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